Tiled wall.



L. H. WHEELER.

ILED WALL.

APPLecATloN EILED oc.26. 1915A.

1926290 L Patend'Apr. 16,1918,

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LABAN H. WHEELER, OF SEATTLE, W'ASHINGTON, ASSIGNOR TO AMEYR ICAN IRON AND AS'JIIEEL ALLOY 'COIVIPPLNY, A 'CORPORATION OiF WASHINGTON.

TILED WALL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 16, 1918.

Application filed October 26, 1915. Serial No. 57,909.

To all 'whom t may concern Be it known that I, LABAN H. WHEELER, itizen of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county vof King and State of Vashington, have invented a certainV new and useful improvement in Tiled V'Valls, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in tiled walls and partitions for houses, and the object of my improvements is to provide concrete tiles combined with studs that shall be adapted to be embodied in the wall or partition of a building, which tiles shall be fastened to said studs by wires and cement, said wires each having one of its end portions embedded in a different one of a plurality of integral lugs provided on the rear side of each of said tiles, while its remaining portion is fastened to one of said studs, and said studs each having a recess on its side adjacent to each of said lugs and within which recess is disposed cement that engages with said lug to aid in securing said tiles to said studs, and a further object of my improvements is to provide walls and partitions for houses which shall be sanitary, durable and fire proof.

l accomplish these objects by devices illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein Figure l is a fragmentary view in front elevation of a partition which embodies my invention; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same partly in horizontal section on broken line m, a: of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is arview in perspective of a detail of the same.

Referring to the drawings, throughout which like reference numerals indicate like parts, a vertically disposed stud l, of wood or iron, is provided with recesses 5 which are represented by dotted lines in Fig. 1 as being disposed on opposite sides of said studs 4L, and to the front side surface of said stud et are secured concrete tiles 6, each of which is of the rectangular form more clearly shown by perspective view in Fig. 3, wherein each of two. wires 7 has one of its end portions embedded in a different one of' two lugs 8` which are formed on the rear side of the tile 6 to be integral therewith, both end edges and both side edges of said tile 6 being provided with a groove 9 which serves to form a recess, as recess 10 in Fig. 2, when the edges of two tiles 6 are joined, within which recess 10 cement may be disposed in order to bind saidV tiles 6 one to the other.

In Fig. 2 I have shown more clearly how the tiles 6 are fastened to the stud i by the wires 7 aided by cement disposed within the recesses 5 to cohere with the sides of the adjacent lugs 8, the wires 7 being each wound tightly around a nail 1l that is driven .into the adjacent side of the stud t.

The end portion of each of the wires 7 which is embedded in a lug 8 is prevented from being pulled out by being provided with a coiled portion 12 which terminates in a straight end lithat is bent back to eX- tend to the back surface of the lug 8, said straight portion 13 being useful in the process of molding a tile, as a tile G, by disposing its end surface to rest upon the bottom wall of a mold while the longer portion of the wire 7 extends downwardly through an adjacent hole in such bottom: wall during the operation of filling such mold with the plastic concrete of which the tiles 6 are made.

Manifestly changes may be made in the forms, dimensions and arrangement of parts of my invention without departing from the spirit thereof.

What I claim is:

A tiled-wall comprising in combination, a plurality of vertically disposed studs, each of which is provided with a plurality of recesses disposed. on opposite side faces thereof, a plurality of tiles each of which is pro vided with spaced lugs projecting from its rear side and with tie wires, one end of each of which is embedded in a different one of said lugs, said tiles being disposed with portions of their rear surfaces in engagement with the front surface of said studs so that one of the lugs of each of said tiles may engage with one of the side faces of one of said studs at a point registering with one of said recesses, cement disposed in each of said recesses in adhesive engagement with In Witness whereof, I hei'ennto subscribe the adjacent side face 0I" one of said lugs,

my name this QOh day 0f October' A.

and nails projecting from the side faces of 1915. said studs adjacent each recess about Which LABAN H. /VHEELER. said tie Wires are Wrappedwvhereby said Witnesses:

tiles may bel maintained in a fixed position O. JOHNSON, against the front surfaces of said studs.

FRANK WARREN.

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